Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228
Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228, is a motet for a funeral by Johann Sebastian Bach, set for double chorus. The work in two movements draws its text from the Book of Isaiah and a hymn by Paul Gerhardt. Scholars disagree about the composition time and place which was traditionally believed to be 1726 in Leipzig, while more recent scholarship suggests for stylistic reasons that it was composed earlier during the years Bach lived in Weimar.
Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228
Paul Gerhardt was a German theologian, Lutheran minister and hymnodist.
Paul Gerhardt, posthumous portrait c. 1700 from the church in Lübben (Spreewald)
The Paul Gerhardt Building in the heart of Münster.
Paul Gerhardt's house, Collegienstraße, Wittenberg